292 PITTONIA. 
and the linear braets long: sepals narrow-lanceolate, glab- 
rous, l-nerved, in age almost carinately so: corolla little 
more than 4 inch long, petals subequal, all narrow, almost 
oblong; spur elongated, rather slender, cylindric, Bene at 
the upper side at the end. 
In the Star Valley meadow lands in the midst of the desert 
region of middle Nevada, at the foothills back of Deeth, 19 
July, 1896, collected by the writer. The spur in this species 
makes some approach to that of the Pacific Coast V. adunca, 
in which that organ is more distinctly hooked, and with a 
sharper angle at the end, on the upper side. 
V. BELLIDIFOLIA. A tufted dwarf, the whole plant barely 
2 inches high, appearing as if acaulescent, the leafy stem 
undeveloped; herbage glabrous, slightly fleshy; leaves long- 
petioled, the subcordate-ovate, ovate and oval blades near 
4 inch long, subentire or slightly and for their size coarsely 
crenate: numerous peduncles either barely equalling or 
somewhat exceeding the leaves, bracteolate above the middle: 
sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, nerveless: corolla less than 
+ inch long, strongly nodding, the long curved spur as 
strongly ascending. 
I would indicate as the type of this Colorado species, 
Baker, Earle and Tracy’s n. 287, from a mossy bog in Slide 
Rock Cafion, west of Mt. Hospesis, 2 July, 1898. "Their 
n. 221, from the Bear Creek Divide, is even more dwarf, 
and „grew on drier ground. It bears, however, about the 
same foliage and the same flower, and can hardly be specifi- 
cally different. Number 166 of the same collection, though 
much larger, and less acaulescent, may also be specifically 
identical. 
Continued study and comparison of acaulescent purple- 
